Zenki/Gallery/Ingame/BR

= Kishin Douji Zenki - Battle Raiden =



This gallery subpage showcases images of Zenki's ingame incarnation from Kishin Douji Zenki - Battle Raiden.

Feel free to return to the Zenki's ingame gallery page if you want to check out his other ingame appearances.

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This section not only features images of Zenki's Chibi and Demon God forms, but also a trivia section on cut content, implying that one point in development, Battle Raiden had a more serious tone to it.

In Japan, "Demon God Zenki" is also known as "Kishin Zenki".


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Intro

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Other

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Fainting Chibi Zenki and unused content


Regardless which form Zenki had at the time he fell in battle, he will go down silently and the game will always show Chibi Zenki fainting. Despite this, the ingame soundtest actually has death cries both for Chibi Zenki and Demon God Zenki, implying that there could actually have been more to it.

The death cries and another unused hurt grunt for Chibi Zenki were later reused in Kishin Douji Zenki FX - Vajura Fight. Just as intended, Zenki lets out a death cry whenever he runs out of health and thus dies. He also doesn't have a cute fainting animation, he actually falls onto his back and stays still. Same goes for Chiaki, who didn't have any kind of unused content like this in Batoru Raiden/Battle Raiden.

Sound Effects
This is a short list, showing the locations of the unused sound effects in the game's sound test:


 * 082 - Chibi Zenki's unused hurt grunt
 * 086 - Chibi Zenki's unused death cry
 * 101 - Demon God Zenki's unused death cry

Zenki's death
Despite what was previously assumed to be Zenki simply fainting as a Chibi, whenever he lost all of his health, has been disproven by the Japanese version's text from the life lost screen, which differs from its English counterpart.

While the English version by DynamicDesigns shows Chiaki berating Zenki on his failure, it doesn't quite fit with her facial expressions. This is because they changed the text to make it less depressing. In the English version, Chiaki says the following: "Jeez, you're useless!"

While in the Japanese version, she says this: もう,頼りないんだから. (Mō, tayorinai ndakara.)

...which directly translates to: "He is on the other side, because I am unreliable."

...or alternatively: "He is dead, because he couldn't rely on me." So, while the English version hides the fact, that Zenki has died by going with "he has fainted and Chiaki berates him on failing", the Japanese version clearly stays that "Zenki has gone to the other side" and that Chiaki blames herself for his death.

Now, that both the translator of this text and the readers know the truth, it leaves the question, whether we wanted to know the truth or not, which everyone has to answer to themselves.

Hurt Sprite Oddities
The following notes only regard Zenki's hurt sprites.

If he gets hurt, most of the time, he will use his first hurt sprite.

Despite having a perfectly fine second sprite for getting hurt in mid-air, the game will only show it very rarely. It has been speculated, that this might be due to a developer's oversight.

The first hurt sprite is the one where he crosses his arms and cringes slightly, while the second one is the one where he appears to be flung away by an enemy's attack or falling backwards.

If Zenki gets hurt while crouching, he will say "Nyargh!" (as Chibi Zenki) or "Woargh!" (as Demon God Zenki) like his does normally, but will still show his crouching sprite.

These oddities affect both of Zenki's forms.

Chibi Zenki's falling backwards sprite is also used as a part of his fainting animation.